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🎙️ Three for the Founders
Oct 27, 2025 • 69:16 minutes

This week, the hosts of Three for the Founders head to the gun range with guest Alan Wright—better known online as @2A-N-LA—and come back with more than just ringing ears. What follows is a raw, layered conversation on what firearms mean in America: as lived experience, as cultural symbol, as constitutional right, and as public hazard.

From the bing, bing of a Glock that sent one host sprinting, to the data points on suicides, homicides, and mass shootings, to a candid reckoning with how guns conjure both heritage and trauma depending on who’s holding them—this episode refuses to flatten the debate into red-blue soundbites.

Alan offers an inside look at California’s labyrinthine gun laws, breaks down common myths around AR-15s, and situates gun ownership within Black history and the fast-growing reality of Black women arming themselves for safety. The hosts push back, raising questions about school shootings, the “urban” semantics of crime, and what kind of civic covenant—if any—should exist between Americans and their weapons.

The episode doesn’t hand you answers. Instead, it sits in the discomfort: Is fear the real driver of our policies? Are guns scapegoats for deeper wounds like poverty, dislocation, and mental health? And is the Second Amendment the “teeth” behind the First—or a splinter in the body politic?

💡 Takeaways for listeners:

• Guns aren’t just tools; they’re symbols—of freedom, of violence, of belonging, of exclusion.
• The data is messy, and how it’s framed often tells you more than the numbers themselves.
• Common ground exists, but only if we stop outsourcing our opinions to algorithms and start talking like neighbors.

👉 Action items: Subscribe, share your perspective with the hosts, and—if you’re brave—ask yourself which amendment matters more to you: the right to speak, or the right to defend the speaking.

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